[ and it's not that yennefer isn't also worried about things coming through. the collision of the spheres was a well known thing back on the continent - that if under the right duress, the right amount of energy, entire races of being can be sent from one sphere to the next. it's part of why the whole process of being here hadn't entirely shocked her, though she's still unsure of the specifics, and the how. but the connection? the singularity harnessing enough chaos to do it all? none of that shocks her.
the only difference here though is she is more...maybe not concerned, necessarily, but aware of its practical implications to the political sphere, of the way that these devices will probably be used against the other factions in the face of whatever war, or not-war, that will cycle it's way through. judging by the way she meets thancred's eyes and he nods towards her, he'd been thinking along th same lines. ]
I do wonder if Ambrose has been working on these since before he started summoning, or if the first of the summoned are what convinced him to do it.
[ it does strike her, if only briefly, that stephen seems more disappointed than surprised by the conversation, and that thancred had seemed to expect it himself. the fact that they'd all been mildly aware of the ulterior motives but had chosen to come along all the same. yennefer, to be fair, hadn't exactly come for the sake of the quest alone - a chance to see the kingdom, time away from the castle (in the wake of the eclipse and ronan lynch...), and a chance to know more about the singularity from an angle that did not involve the oversight of a thornean mage had been much higher on her own priority list.
but it does open an interesting line of thinking - that stephen thinks it relevant that the three of them would know their locations. how to get here, what they're picking up. that the three of them would have the quickest access to where they are planted.
she wonders, briefly, what all has happened to dr. stephen strange that he would be so much more worried about these threats coming through than anything else. but she supposes that's a conversation for another time. ]
Did he show you how to read them? The thaumametors, I mean. It could be useful to have access to that information without going through Ambrose and his mages - especially if something unwanted happens.
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the only difference here though is she is more...maybe not concerned, necessarily, but aware of its practical implications to the political sphere, of the way that these devices will probably be used against the other factions in the face of whatever war, or not-war, that will cycle it's way through. judging by the way she meets thancred's eyes and he nods towards her, he'd been thinking along th same lines. ]
I do wonder if Ambrose has been working on these since before he started summoning, or if the first of the summoned are what convinced him to do it.
[ it does strike her, if only briefly, that stephen seems more disappointed than surprised by the conversation, and that thancred had seemed to expect it himself. the fact that they'd all been mildly aware of the ulterior motives but had chosen to come along all the same. yennefer, to be fair, hadn't exactly come for the sake of the quest alone - a chance to see the kingdom, time away from the castle (in the wake of the eclipse and ronan lynch...), and a chance to know more about the singularity from an angle that did not involve the oversight of a thornean mage had been much higher on her own priority list.
but it does open an interesting line of thinking - that stephen thinks it relevant that the three of them would know their locations. how to get here, what they're picking up. that the three of them would have the quickest access to where they are planted.
she wonders, briefly, what all has happened to dr. stephen strange that he would be so much more worried about these threats coming through than anything else. but she supposes that's a conversation for another time. ]
Did he show you how to read them? The thaumametors, I mean. It could be useful to have access to that information without going through Ambrose and his mages - especially if something unwanted happens.